Frye was a senator from Maine and was a Republican. He served from 1907 to 1911.
He was previously a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1901 to 1907; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1895 to 1901; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1889 to 1895; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1883 to 1889; a senator from Maine as a Republican from 1881 to 1883; the representative for Maine’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1877 to 1881; the representative for Maine’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1875 to 1877; the representative for Maine’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1873 to 1875; and the representative for Maine’s 2nd congressional district as a Republican from 1871 to 1873.
![Photo of Sen. William Frye [R-ME, 1907-1911]](/static/legislator-photos/404340-200px.jpeg)
Voting Record
Missed Votes
From Mar 1881 to Aug 1911, Frye missed 1,353 of 5,060 roll call votes, which is 26.7%. This is on par with the median of 29.5% among the lifetime records of senators serving in Aug 1911. The chart below reports missed votes over time.
Primary Sources
The information on this page is originally sourced from a variety of materials, including:
- unitedstates/congress-legislators, a community project gathering congressional information
- United States Congressional Roll Call Voting Records, 1789-1990 by Howard L. Rosenthal and Keith T. Poole.
- Martis’s “The Historical Atlas of Political Parties in the United States Congress”, via Keith Poole’s roll call votes data set, for political party affiliation for Members of Congress from 1789 through about year 2000
- Biographical Directory of the United States Congress for the photo
